Skilled nursing facilities · Illinois

Department of Veterans' Affair

La Salle, IL · ~219 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
10.9
Avg TCR
6.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Department of Veterans' Affair runs at 168% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Skilled nursing facilities workplace, earning a grade D.

Department of Veterans' Affair: 10.9 TCR = 168% of Skilled nursing facilities BLS 6.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Department of Veterans' Affair safety composite

Department of Veterans' Affair scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 15%), blended into one 0-100 breakdown against same-industry peers. A missing measure drops out and redistributes its weight rather than deflating the score. This is a per-dimension breakdown, distinct from the single letter grade above it (which weights TCR alone against the BLS industry benchmark).

F

27/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% of industry peers

DART rate
F 10.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% of industry peers

Benchmarked live against every credibly-rated employer in the same NAICS industry code in the current OSHA extract (a segment must have at least 8 rated peers to benchmark). Not a legal or compliance determination; PlainSafetyScore's own weighting (TCR 40%, DART 35%, fatalities 25%).

Rising injury rate

Department of Veterans' Affair: 10.7 → 11.2 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 11.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.98× in 2019

Department of Veterans' Affair's TCR rose 0.5 from 10.7 in 2018 to 11.2 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 0.98× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 623110 · La Salle, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 10.9 · 168% of ind

  • DART 10.7 DART
  • RANK #640/857
  • PHOTO Flat Rock Care Center
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 45 inj
  • SIZE ~219 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Flat Rock Care Center (0.0 TCR gap)

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Department of Veterans' Affair in the TCR neighbourhood

Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers

TCR

What this shows Department of Veterans' Affair averages 10.9 TCR (168% of the Skilled nursing facilities BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

Department of Veterans' Affair TCR series: 2018=10.7 · 2019=11.2 · BLS 6.5

Where Department of Veterans' Affair falls in its industry

15,252 Skilled nursing facilities establishments

Safer than 23% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #640 safest of 857 Skilled nursing facilities employers in Illinois.

Department of Veterans' Affair (219 employees, TCR 10.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 106 employees and a TCR of 6.6 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 30 entities by Average employees (X) and Total Case Rate (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Larger & higher-riskSmaller & higher-riskLarger & saferSmaller & safer than peers 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Department of Veterans' Affair
Department of Veterans' Affair (219 employees, TCR 10.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 106 employees and a TCR of 6.6

Department of Veterans' Affair has more employees than the Skilled nursing facilities median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.6. Workforce size and injury rate do not always move together within the same industry -- some of its smaller peers run higher rates than its larger ones, and vice versa.

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2019 11.2 10.7 23 0 0
2018 10.7 8.3 22 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

623110 · IL · La Salle

15,252 Skilled nursing facilities employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 12 employers in La Salle, IL · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Flat Rock Care Center 10.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Brighton Place San Diego 10.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Terraces of Los Gatos 10.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Washington Odd Fellows Home 10.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sun Chemical - Northlake 219 FTE
STATE-SIZE Food Merchandising : FRANKLIN PARK 219 FTE
STATE-SIZE 3810 Wise Plastics Technologies 219 FTE
STATE-SIZE 99 - McCook 219 FTE
CITY-NEAR XLA 234 FTE
CITY-NEAR J B Contracting Corp 68 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ficek Electric & Communication Systems 68 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of La Salle 63 FTE
NAT-TCR Pitman Creek Wholesale 10.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Macomb Regional Dialysis Cente 10.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Mondo Building & Excavating 10.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Superior Grocers # 120 10.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Daifuku America eFA Division 219 FTE
NAT-SIZE Jostens - Shelbyville 219 FTE
NAT-SIZE St. Vincent De Paul Residence 219 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rock Creek 219 FTE

Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →

Data Source: OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA), mandatory establishment-level injury/illness reports. Grades compare employer Total Case Rate (TCR) to BLS IIF industry benchmarks. Data covers years reported by this establishment: 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.